Notable American Trials, Guilty or not guilty? An account of the trials of the Leo Frank case for the murder of Mary Phagan, the D.C. Stephenson case for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, the Samuel Insull case for use of the mails to defraud, the Alger Hiss case for perjury. By Francis Xavier Busch, 1952. The most reliable primary and secondary sources about Mary Phagan's murder, Leo Frank's trial, appeals and aftermath . 1. The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan Kean (b. June 5, 1954)...
Topic: Leo Frank, 1913, D.C. Stephenson Case, Samuel Insull case, Alger Hiss Case, Francis Xavier Busch,...
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Pollard, Henry Robinson. [from old catalog]
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Louisiana Anthology Podcast Episode 263. Mark Broyard, part 1. Inside the Creole Mafia . Mark Broyard is descended from a long line of artisans and craftsmen who have plied their trade in New Orleans and Los Angeles. His mother's father was a furniture maker in the Vieux Carree. His own father was a third generation bricklayer as well as a building contractor. Mark cites these influences as being the strongest on his work. Mark and Roger Guenveur Smith have a two-man show, Inside the Creole...
Topics: Louisiana Anthology Podcast, Louisiana Anthology, Mark Broyard, Inside the Creole Mafia, free...
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Unnecessary Jewish-Gentile Conflict in the American South: Anti-Gentile Political Bullying, Bigotry and Ethnoreligious Activism in Marietta, Georgia, Circa 1995. In the mid-1990s, there was a firestorm of controversy in the suburbs of metro-Atlanta over the wording on a prominent historical monument-sign that was mounted atop an industrial-strength steel pole of a few feet in height at the Old Marietta City Cemetery. It was placed there to educate visitors about the significance of a grave site...
Topics: Marietta, Georgia, Mary Phagan, Leo Frank, Atlanta, Marietta City Counsel, old Marietta city...
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This autumn, Natasha Trethewey took up her duties as United States Poet Laureate, the 19th poet to serve since Congress created the position in 1985. Also known as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the Laureate is responsible for all the public poetry programs of the Library, as well as an annual lecture and reading. With her appointment as Poet Laureate, Trethewey crowns a career steeped in the complexities of American history. The marriage of her white,...
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W. Stuart Towns, author of Enduring Legacy: Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost Cause,which is published by the University of Alabama Press, explores three post-Civil War ceremonial events--Confederate veterans reunions, Confederate Memorial Day, and Confederate Monument dedications--and how these events helped shape the nation's memory of the South and the Civil War. Prof. Towns is recently retired as chairman of the Department of Communication Studies at Southeast Missouri State University....
The spirit of Americanism : address by William H. Ellis, Justice Supreme Court of Florida, before the Civitan Club Jacksonville, Florida, Confederate Memorial Day, 1935
Topics: United States -- Politics and government -- Periodicals., United States -- Economic policy --...
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Proving That Anti-Semitism Had Nothing to Do With His Conviction — and Proving That His Defenders Have Used Frauds and Hoaxes for 100 Years exclusive to The American Mercury MARY PHAGAN was just thirteen years old. She was a sweatshop laborer for Atlanta, Georgia’s National Pencil Company. Exactly 100 years ago today — Saturday, April 26, 1913 — little Mary (pictured, artist’s depiction) was looking forward to the festivities of Confederate Memorial Day. She dressed gaily and planned...
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In the first half of this week's show we spoke with Rodney about the upcoming Heartwood Forest Council, one of two yearly meet and greet events by Heartwood. Heartwood "is a regional network that protects forests and supports community activism in the eastern United States through education, advocacy, and citizen empowerment. We are people helping people protect the places they love. Heartwood was founded in 1991, when concerned citizens from several midwestern states each defending their...
Topics: ashevillefm, wcrs, kowa, kwtf, wsfm, kwrk, anarchist
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A NEW authorized audio book version of The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan Kean has just been recorded for The American Mercury, and will serve as the capstone of our series on the Leo Frank Case in this, the centennial year of the death of the convicted murderer in this case, Leo Max Frank. The Murder of Little Mary Phagan is an exceptionally insightful semi-autobiographical book, detailing a fascinating exploration of one of the most sensational criminal cases of all time. What...
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This autumn, Natasha Trethewey took up her duties as United States Poet Laureate, the 19th poet to serve since Congress created the position in 1985. Also known as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the Laureate is responsible for all the public poetry programs of the Library, as well as an annual lecture and reading. With her appointment as Poet Laureate, Trethewey crowns a career steeped in the complexities of American history. The marriage of her white,...
Topic: Confederate Memorial Day addresses
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Includes recipes (p. [279]-286)
Topics: Women gardeners, Gardening, Nineteen thirties, Gardening, Nineteen thirties, Women gardeners
This autumn, Natasha Trethewey took up her duties as United States Poet Laureate, the 19th poet to serve since Congress created the position in 1985. Also known as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the Laureate is responsible for all the public poetry programs of the Library, as well as an annual lecture and reading. With her appointment as Poet Laureate, Trethewey crowns a career steeped in the complexities of American history. The marriage of her white,...
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Counter protesters came out to decry a ‘Confederate Memorial Day’ service in the North Carolinian city of Graham, Saturday, as Southern nationalists gathered to show off the Confederate flag outside the local historic courthouse.
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This autumn, Natasha Trethewey took up her duties as United States Poet Laureate, the 19th poet to serve since Congress created the position in 1985. Also known as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the Laureate is responsible for all the public poetry programs of the Library, as well as an annual lecture and reading. With her appointment as Poet Laureate, Trethewey crowns a career steeped in the complexities of American history. The marriage of her white,...
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Thomas, William Holcombe, 1867-1945
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Day, C. M. (Catherine Matilda), 1815-1899
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Topics: Eastern Townships (Québec) -- Description and travel, Eastern Townships (Québec) -- History
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The truth about the Leo Frank Case. Article by Tom Watson Read by Oscar Turner
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Topics: Leo Frank, Mary Phagan, Tom Watson, ADL, Anti-Defamation League, B'nai B'rith, Southern Poverty Law...
"Printed by order of the Association."
Topics: Confederate Survivors Association, Confederate Memorial Day addresses
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This autumn, Natasha Trethewey took up her duties as United States Poet Laureate, the 19th poet to serve since Congress created the position in 1985. Also known as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the Laureate is responsible for all the public poetry programs of the Library, as well as an annual lecture and reading. With her appointment as Poet Laureate, Trethewey crowns a career steeped in the complexities of American history. The marriage of her white,...
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Two Leo Frank magazine articles by retired teacher Leonard Dinnerstein and Atlanta Librarian Stephen J. Goldfarb in American Heritage Magazine, October 1996 issue. The Fate of Leo Frank by Leonard Dinnerstein, page 98 and Framed by Stephen J. Goldfarb, page 108. Your Research Assignment: Please read these two articles, then fact check every statement and claim within them. Are the statements made by Leonard Dinnerstein and Stephen J. Goldfarb reliable? Use the references listed below to study...
Topics: Leo Frank, Mary Phagan, Leonard Dinnerstein, Stephen J. Goldfarb, Stephen Goldfarb, Atlanta, 1913,...
North Carolina Collection
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Cox, William R. (William Ruffin), 1831-1919; Oakwood Memorial Association
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Hebrews Once Proud-To-Be Confederate(Those Racists)
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Inscription on the First Official Version of the Mary Phagan History Sign-Post (1994-1995) Culture wars in the middle years of 1990s surrounding the historic Marietta Cemetery, located at the North-West outskirts of greater Atlanta, Georgia. Image: The little known lettering at the top image--compiled by the long-time journalist and hometown city of Marietta historian, Bill Kinney--is variation part one of two dramatically different renditions of wording formulations, regarding the highly...
Topics: ADL, Leo Frank, Mary Phagan
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Mostly camp news, including enlistments (new members), historical tours of an old plantation, re-enactments, Confederate Memorial Day etc.
Topics: United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865 -- Societies etc. -- Periodicals, Texas -- History...
The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery (1913) The Leo Frank Case (1913) produced by the Atlanta Publishing Company, is the earliest (first) known book published about the murder of little Mary Phagan and ensuing trial of Leo Frank. On April 17, 2015, the centennial of Leo Frank's last living birthday, an audiobook version of this elusive 1913 book was produced and published by Margaret Huffstickler . Audiobook Link:...
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Topics: Leo Frank, Mary Phagan, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913, 1914, 1915, Hugh Dorsey, Tom Watson, ADL,...
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Cal, Jen, Kara, and Kent talk about white people co-opting the "good things" from various cultures and making them cool and acceptable (i.e. cultural appropriation), while simultaneously looking down on the people of the culture they are co-opting. We also talk about Confederate Memorial Day...which is totally a real thing.
Topics: Cal Moore, Jen Travis, Kent Straith, Kara Tipton, co-opt, racism, white culture, black culture,...
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Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel (1938) by C. Vann Woodward, the scathing and unflattering classic biography of Tom Watson, an attorney and populist politician from Georgia. Concerning the Leo Frank Case, Historian C. Vann Woodward wrote, the trial evidence was “overwhelmingly more incriminating [of Conley] than any produced against Frank.” Tom Watson is most often cited as instigating the lynching of Leo Max Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent who was convicted for beating, raping and...
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Topics: Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel, Leo Frank, Mary Phagan
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Contains information on Confederate Memorial day, "South through Northern eyes" poetry and camp news.
Topics: United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865 -- Societies etc. -- Periodicals, Texas -- History...
Leo M. Frank, Plaintiff in Error, vs. State of Georgia, Defendant in Error. In Error from Fulton Superior Court at the July Term 1913. Brief of Evidence 1913. Defenders of Leo Frank have long held on to the position that without the testimony of Jim Conley, there never would have been a conviction for Leo Frank. However the truth is, it was Monteen Stover who sparked the chain of events, that led to Leo Frank's astonishing trial statement admission on August 18, 1913, that ultimately sealed his...
Topics: Leo Frank, Leo Frank Trial, Leo Frank Case, Leo M. Frank, Lucille Frank, Hugh Dorsey, Reuben...
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Index from Murder of Mary Phagan , written by the great-niece of the murder victim, Mary Phagan-Kean. Full transcription is below. Mary Phagan-Kean P.O. Box 2573 801 Industrial Blvd. Ellijay, GA 30540-9998 INDEX A Alabama, 10-12, 15, 51 Albertson Brothers, grocery store, 91 Alexander, Henry, defense lawyer, 151-152 Alexander, Miles, lawyer Kilpartick [sic] & Cody, 293 Ambulance Service, Greenberg & Bond, 225 American Jewish Committee, 237; Atlanta Chapter, 264, 270, 279, 281, 304, 309,...
Topics: mary phagan, leo frank
McGill University Library
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Topics: Eastern Townships (Québec) -- History., Cantons-de-l'Est (Québec) -- Histoire.,...
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Topics: Eastern Townships (Québec) -- History., Stukely (Québec) -- History., Shefford (Québec :...
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This autumn, Natasha Trethewey took up her duties as United States Poet Laureate, the 19th poet to serve since Congress created the position in 1985. Also known as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the Laureate is responsible for all the public poetry programs of the Library, as well as an annual lecture and reading. With her appointment as Poet Laureate, Trethewey crowns a career steeped in the complexities of American history. The marriage of her white,...
Allen County Public Library
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Devoted largely to the towns of Stukely and Shefford
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This autumn, Natasha Trethewey took up her duties as United States Poet Laureate, the 19th poet to serve since Congress created the position in 1985. Also known as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the Laureate is responsible for all the public poetry programs of the Library, as well as an annual lecture and reading. With her appointment as Poet Laureate, Trethewey crowns a career steeped in the complexities of American history. The marriage of her white,...
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Take a journey through time with the American Mercury, and experience the trial of Leo Frank (pictured, in courtroom sketch) for the murder of Mary Phagan just as it happened as revealed in contemporary accounts. The Mercury will be covering this historic trial in capsule form from now until August 26, the 100th anniversary of the rendering of the verdict. by Bradford L. Huie THE JEWISH ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (ADL) — in great contrast to the American Mercury and other independent media —...
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The publishers of the first edition of The Murder of Little Mary Phagan (1987/1989) did not want the long bibliography in Mary P. Kean's book, which created difficulty in using the book as an academic source. In 2020, it was finally released, the exact pages held back. Mary Phagan-Kean P.O. Box 2573 801 Industrial Blvd. Ellijay, GA 30540-9998 INDEX A Alabama, 10-12, 15, 51 Albertson Brothers, grocery store, 91 Alexander, Henry, defense lawyer, 151-152 Alexander, Miles, lawyer Kilpartick...
Topics: murder of little mary phagan, leo frank, atlanta
York University Libraries
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[Leo Frank Flickr Gallery Curator: Established in 1866, the Marietta Daily Journal is Marietta's oldest and most prominent newspaper in that city located at the perimeter of metro Atlanta Georgia. This article was submitted recently, marking the 25th anniversary of the subset hotbutton topic with respect to the insensitive issue of using a prominent educational street-style sign to push ethnic frictions in the community of Marietta for dominating the narrative of the Frank-Phagan criminal...
Topics: ADL, Georgia, Leo Frank, Mary Phagan, Racism, Anti-Semitism
Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Library of the Public Archives of Canada
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After an unsuccessful attempt in 1983, members of Atlanta's Jewish community obtained a pardon on behalf of Leo Frank in 1986. Frank was convicted of murder in 1913 and hung by a group of prominent citizens known as the Knights of Mary Phagan in 1915 shortly after having his sentence commuted to life imprisonment by the governor. Two markers currently stand near Phagan's grave, one of which was posted by the city of Marietta. It was revised shortly after being erected to language not mentioning...
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International journalist-author, Pierre van Paassen, weaves together a lifetime of phantasmagorical personal stories, ostentatious tall tales and deliciously embellished memories as a travel corespondent in his epic memoirs, 'To Number Our Days' (405 pages), published in 1964 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Historical Notability Pierre van Paassen is most often cited post-1964, for his unverifiable claim that in 1922, while he was investigating the Leo Frank case files at the Fulton...
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Topics: Pierre van Paassen, 1964, Leo Frank, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Israel, Palestine, France,...
The Silent and the Damned: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank Author: Robert Seitz Frey, Nancy Thompson-Frey Your assignment is to read the entire book slowly and carefully, taking notes. Second you are to fact check this book using the primary and secondary sources of the case. Write about and publish your findings on the Internet. What facts did the authors leave out of their book? What facts were falsified? What claims are erroneous? References: The most reliable primary...
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Topics: Leo Frank, Mary Phagan, ADL, B'nai B'rith, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913, 1914, 1915, Anti-Defamation...
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New Audio Book: The Murder of Little Mary Phagan A NEW authorized audio book version of The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan Kean has just been recorded for The American Mercury, and will serve as the capstone of our series on the Leo Frank Case in this, the centennial year of the death of the convicted murderer in this case, Leo Max Frank. You can download the audio book, free of charge, below. The Murder of Little Mary Phagan is an exceptionally insightful semi-autobiographical...
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Topics: Mary Phagan, leo frank, jew, conspiracy, usa
White Separatist position on the Leo Frank case by Instauration Magazine June 1986. The conviction of Leo Frank galvanized the formation of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL). Keywords: Leo Frank, Mary Phagan, Leo Frank Trial, Leo Frank Case, Hugh Dorsey, Tom Watson, ADL, B'nai B'rith, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913, 1914, 1915, Instauration, Luther Rosser, Reuben Arnold, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Israel, Anti-Defamation League. If you want to understand the Leo Frank case with lucid...
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Topics: Leo Frank, Mary Phagan, Leo Frank Trial, Leo Frank Case, Hugh Dorsey, Tom Watson, ADL, B'nai...
Leo Frank, Senior class book of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1906 . The Most Famous Cornellian : Leo Max Frank (1902 to 1906) 1902-3: Freshman 1903-4: Sophomore 1904-5: Junior (spent the summer of 1905 in Europe) 1905-6: Senior Graduation Date June 21st 1906 (see Leo Frank graduation photo on Flickr) Cornell Senior Class Book, Page 79: Leo Max Frank hails from sleepy Brooklyn, famed for graveyards, breweries and baby carriages. Blossoming in the cotton fields of Texas and finding southern...
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Topics: 1906, Cornell University, Leo Frank, Leo Max Frank, Ithaca, New York, Leo Frank Case, Steve Oney,...
